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It's a big topic - so let's try to get it down to the bare essentials. Cut and paste this page into a new page on your Unit 8 notebook and use it as the beginning of a new set of notes on the early years of the Cold War.

AN ILLUSTRATED DEFINTION OF THE COLD WAR

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Major events, ideas, topics, and people - from class, Creating America, and ABC-CLIO

THE YALTA CONFERENCE* ** Meeting near the end of WWII - big 3 meet to
discuss post war Europe
    • Germany will be divided, controlled by
the Allies
    • Liberated Eastern European countries
will have new elections
    • United Nations will be formed
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THE UNITED NATIONS
*Since the leagaue of nations wasnt working
the US created another peacekeeping body
known as the united nations.
  • It was made because the The leagaue of nations
was weak in and after the world wars.
*Its goal was to get keep and maintain peace.
CONTAINMENT
*Is a policy that was first implemented by the United States in 1947
in response to communism. It is meant to prevent—through political,
economic, and diplomatic methods—the growth of a hostile country's territory and to limit the country's ideological influence.
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THE TRUMAN DOCTRINE
*On March 12, 1947, in a message
to Congress, President Harry Truman
laid out a foreign policy doctrine for the
United States in the early days of the
cold war that subsequently became known as the Truman Doctrine

**THE MARSHALL PLAN
  • The plan to stop the spread of red.
  • "wether we like it or not we are in a position of great responsibility"
  • Flood other countries with money
  • Trying to stop the spread of communism and the soviet union.

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THE BERLIN AIRLIFT
*The Berlin Airlift was a massive transfer of essential
supplies flown into Berlin, Germany during 1948
and 1949 by British and U.S. forces in around-the-clock
missions. The airlift was both an important incident of
the cold war and the most extraordinary peacetime military operation in history.

NATO
*The North Atlantic Treaty Organization is a mutual defense
alliance of nations from Europe and North America. The North Atlantic Treaty was signed in 1949 by Great Britain, France, Belgium,
Netherlands, Luxembourg, United States, Canada, Denmark, Iceland,
Italy, Norway, and Portugal. NATO was organized to defend member
nations from the possible aggression of the Soviet Union and the nations
of Eastern Europe, which formed the Warsaw Treaty Organization six years later

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COMMUNISM IN CHINA
*During the wars and battles the communism in
china grew to a large and powerful amount.
THE KOREAN WAR
No need to take notes - you will have a different assignment and activity
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MCCARTHYISM
*Joesph McCarthy was a republican senator from Wisonsin
*He used the korian war to scare the US citizens of communism.
McCarthyism was a term that came to stand for reckless charges against innocent citizens.
THE SPACE RACE**

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The competition between the United States and the Soviet Union
to explore outer space, most often defined by the race to place a
human on the moon, the Space race was an integral part of the Cold
War. Each side used the competition to demonstrate its technological
prowess in the areas of science, educatiojn, engineering, and management.
Both nations also used rocket and missile development gleaned from the
space race to strengthen their military establishments. The two superpowers had been working on missile development for some time in hopes of developing intercontinental ballistic missiles to deliver nuclear warheads. Both sides thus hoped these programs would help develop a rocket capable of placing a satellite into orbit.